re: LHSAA goes full retard

I haven't been able to keep up with this very much.. can someone fill me in on the cliff notes? Specifically, how will the playoffs be divvied up, if this is passed?

Will 5A private schools play only other 5A private schools in the playoffs or will the "split" allow for a more broad selection of teams?

All football-participating Private schools in the state. Notice there are much more smaller Private schools than larger, and the larger ones are concentrated mainly in the NOLA metro area.

5A

Archbishop Rummel (AB) - Metaire
Archbishop Shaw (AB) - Marrero
Brother Martin (AB) - New Orleans
Catholic (AB) - Baton Rouge
Holy Cross (AB) - New Orleans
Jesuit (AB) - New Orleans
St. Augustine (AB) - New Orleans
St. Paul's (AB) - Covington

4A

Loyola Prep - Shreveport
St. Michael's - Baton Rouge
St. Thomas More - Lafayette
Teurlings Catholic - Lafayette
Vandebilt Catholic - Houma

3A

John Curtis - River Ridge
De La Salle - New Orleans
Evangel - Shreveport
Notre Dame - Crowley
Parkview Baptist - Baton Rouge
St. Charles Catholic - LaPlace
University - Baton Rouge (still not 100% clear on whether U-High is public or private, but I'll just throw them on here for now)
E.D. White - Thibodaux

2A

Archbishop Hannan - Covington
Calvary Baptist - Shreveport
Capitol - Baton Rouge
Catholic - New Iberia
Dunham - Baton Rouge
Episcopal - Baton Rouge
Haynes - Metaire
Holy Savior Menard - Alexandria
Newman - New Orleans
Northlake Christian - Covington
Opelousas Catholic - Opelousas
Pope John Paul II - Slidell
Redemptorist - Baton Rouge
Riverside Academy - Reserve
St. Thomas Aquinas - Hammond
Westminster Christian - Opelousas

1A

Ascension Catholic - Donaldsonville
Ascension Christian - Gonzales
Ascension Episcopal - Youngsville
Catholic PC - New Roads
Cedar Creek - Ruston
Central Catholic - Morgan City
Christian Life - Baton Rouge
Covenant Christian - Houma
Ecole Classique - Metaire
Hamilton Christian - Lake Charles
Highland Baptist - New Iberia
Houma Christian - Houma
Lafayette Christian - Lafayette
Metaire Park Country Day - Metaire
Ridgewood Prep - Metaire
Ouachita Christian - Monroe
Sacred Heart - Ville Platte
Southern Lab - Baton Rouge
St. Edmund's - Eunice
St. Frederick - Monroe
St. John - Plaquemine
St. Martin's Episcopal - Metaire
Vermillion Catholic - Abbeville


If there needed to be a "grouping" of schools in close proximity it would resemble something like this:

NOLA Metro Area
Archbishop Hannan (2A) Archbishop Rummel (5A), Archbishop Shaw (5A), Brother Martin (5A), De La Salle (3A), Ecole Classique (1A), Haynes (2A), Holy Cross (5A), Jesuit (5A), John Curtis (3A), Metaire Park Country Day (1A), Newman (2A), Northlake Christian (2A), Pope John Paul II (2A), Ridgewood Prep (1A), Riverside Academy (2A), St. Thomas Aquinas (2A), St. Augustine (5A), St. Charles Catholic (3A), St. Martin's Episcopal (1A), St. Paul's (5A), Vandebilt Catholic (4A), E.D. White (3A).

23 Total

Baton Rouge Metro Area
Ascension Catholic (1A), Ascension Christian (1A), Ascension Episcopal (1A), Catholic PC (1A), Christian Life (1A), Catholic (5A), Capitol (2A), Dunham (2A), Episcopal (2A), Parkview Baptist (3A), Redemptorist (2A), Southern Lab (1A), St. John (1A), St. Michael's (4A), University (3A)

15 Total

Lafayette/West Louisiana Metro Area
Catholic NI (2A), Central Catholic (1A), Highland Baptist (1A), Lafayette Christian (1A), Notre Dame (3A), Opelousas Catholic (2A), Sacred Heart VP (1A), St. Edmund's (1A), St. Thomas More (4A), Teurlings Catholic (4A), Westminster Christian (2A), Hamilton Christian (1A), Vermillion Catholic (1A)

13 Total

North Louisiana
Calvary Baptist (2A), Cedar Creek (1A), Evangel (3A), Holy Savior Menard (2A), Loyola Prep (4A), Ouachita Christian (1A), St. Frederick (1A)

7 Total

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2A Baseball Seeds: #1 Calvary, #2 John Curtis, #3 Evangel.

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and none really should have won, Kinder had the championship game in their finger tips and blew it...

guess it's because they aren't private

Private schools have to recruit. In order to have enrollment they must sell their school. The problem is where do you draw the line? I saw a school recently completely turn its football program around in 2 years taking 4 or 5 times as many minority football players as they usually do. No doubt many of these kids are getting financial help. It's obvious what the kids were there to do. 90% of the kids they took in just happened to play football. Everybody knows this happened but nobody is doing anything about it. It's only recruiting if public schools do it? I am fine with a complete split if that's what the private schools want. My guess is if it was in their best interest to leave they would have done so already.

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Private schools have to recruit. In order to have enrollment they must sell their school. The problem is where do you draw the line? I saw a school recently completely turn its football program around in 2 years taking 4 or 5 times as many minority football players as they usually do. No doubt many of these kids are getting financial help. It's obvious what the kids were there to do. 90% of the kids they took in just happened to play football. Everybody knows this happened but nobody is doing anything about it. It's only recruiting if public schools do it? I am fine with a complete split if that's what the private schools want. My guess is if it was in their best interest to leave they would have done so already.

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if a private school changes the culture of the school a great deal with recruitment.... the parents there already will revolt - the result is usually not pretty...

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5A Archbishop Rummel (AB) - Metaire Archbishop Shaw (AB) - Marrero Brother Martin (AB) - New Orleans Catholic (AB) - Baton Rouge Holy Cross (AB) - New Orleans Jesuit (AB) - New Orleans St. Augustine (AB) - New Orleans St. Paul's (AB) - Covington

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Byrd from Shreveport + 1 other school

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4A Loyola Prep - Shreveport St. Michael's - Baton Rouge St. Thomas More - Lafayette Teurlings Catholic - Lafayette Vandebilt Catholic - Houma

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+1 other school & maybe Edna Karr

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then Miami of Ohio with Ben Rothliesberger could have beaten the big boys. Vanderbilt and Jake Cutler should have competed for SEC titles. East Carolina and Chris Johnson should have been able to beat anybody in the nation.

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I was only listing private schools. I have no idea which public schools are select, etc.

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according to the article those will be all the teams- 10 in 5A, 6 in 4A

I'm pretty sure it was the private schools that have been pushing the whole "we have to have 5 divisions for privates too" agenda. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me either but apparently that's what hey want (or were using the threat of it with the "the constitution says 5 divisions" argument.

The thing that strikes me as funny is that I look up the by-law once and, unless I'm really misremembering, it only takes a majority vote to change the constitution. I'm not sure why they didn't just do that when they voted in the first place.